| Name | CVE-2021-33178 |
| Description | The Manage Backgrounds functionality within NagVis versions prior to 1.9.29 is vulnerable to an authenticated path traversal vulnerability. Exploitation of this results in a malicious actor having the ability to arbitrarily delete files on the local system. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| nagvis (PTS) | stretch | 1:1.7.10+dfsg1-3.2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1:1.9.11-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 1:1.9.25-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1:1.9.31-1 | fixed |
| sid | 1:1.9.32-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| nagvis | source | (unstable) | 1:1.9.29-1 | | | |
Notes
[bullseye] - nagvis <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - nagvis <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - nagvis <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
check, affects nagvis plugin used in Nagios XI and should be fixed in 2.0.9, https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/cyrc-advisory-nagios-xi/